Friday, October 16, 2009

Thought for the day

Michelle Obama must be the very last woman in her age and SES group to not have a salaried job outside the home.I mean, if you send the Secretary of Commerce to cut the ribbon on a nice new bridge over the Missouri River, the USA is effectively paying him or her for their time.If Michelle Obama does the honors, she get zippo.But imagine the hoo-hah if she took a job with a DC law firm or something...Or even started writing briefs for other lawyers part time, the statutes governing conflict of interest and the praetorian class would both literally explode.Dunno what the answer is, the First Lady of the United State has never been more necessary and yet more anarchronistic at the same time.